DP6
Individual
fba90866
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/160#DP6
Properties
Parent
Decision Point Id
DP6
Decision Question
Should Company B engineers treat their employer's directive to proceed with production as a legitimate business decision entitled to professional deference, or must they treat it as categorically outside the domain of permissible managerial authority because it requires them to manufacture equipment they believe will endanger human life?
Focus
Public Safety vs. Business Decision Boundary: Whether Company B Officials' Production Directive Falls Within Permissible Managerial Authority
Option1
Treat the directive to proceed as categorically outside the domain of permissible managerial authority because it requires manufacturing equipment believed to endanger human life, and refuse all participation regardless of adverse employment consequences, on the grounds that the public-safety dimension removes the decision from the business-judgment domain entirely.
Option2
Treat the employer's directive as a provisionally legitimate business decision to rely on Company A's design expertise, and continue participation while the proposed impartial arbitration is pending, on the grounds that an unresolved technical disagreement between qualified engineers does not yet meet the threshold for categorically overriding managerial authority.
Option3
Comply with the employer's directive while formally documenting the safety objection in writing and placing the moral and legal responsibility on management, treating the directive as a business decision that the engineers have contested through all available channels and that now falls within the employer's residual authority to make at their own professional and legal risk.
Role Label
Engineer
TTL
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Ontology
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Individual
Content Hash
fba9086671a27970...Last Updated
2026-03-08 16:29
Extraction Provenance
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2026-03-02T15:10:46.722648
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ProEthica Case 160 Extraction